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digifuzzy

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  1. Kind of shocking to emerge/reboot and not be able to find drive space. This shouldn't happen. Installed functionality shouldn't "normally" disappear.

     

    For the record:

    - smartd doesn't report drive errors with device storing /.

    - was root when I went to check mdadm

     

    Other than what I have posted in the forums/bugs in the past, not really. I just fixed and moved on as I was more worried about my system than diagnosing a possible portage/emerge issue. Sorry.

     

    Had to rant a little. My bad :(

  2. Well that was disconcerting...

    I just finished an emerge on my file server and followed it up with a reboot.

    Strange, I couldn't find my raid device!?!?!?!

     

    I did an mdadm -D devicename only to be told that mdadm as command was not recognized.

    ????? o_O

     

    Sure enough, sys-fs/mdadm had disappeared from my system. But I didn't remove that ebuild...

    Re-emerged, etc-update, rc-update, rc-service and remount...back to normal.

     

    Its these surprises with emerge that are starting to wear on me.

  3. I have systems set to use the desktop profile.

    But I just noticed during an emerge that the new ebuild "app-laptop/radeontool" was installed.

     

    From the ebuild:

     DESCRIPTION="Manage the backlight, external video output and registers of ATI Radeon graphics cards"
    I'm a little confused by the "app-laptop" part. Is this ebuild being installed/enabled by default now for desktop systems with ATI/Radeon cards?
  4. That request is a bit of a challenge, seeing as we have only 3 day-to-day developers, including myself, so we do need to stay focused on having an efficient development process, and yet I understand the benefits of what you are asking for and will look into ways to address it.

    Daniel,

    Appreciate the thought. I saw some of the bug reports that came through in the aftermath after the upgrade. It probably put stress on those few devs. They work hard to put something out and then have to work harder in the aftermath.

     

    If I felt more confident about helping, I'd be right there with you folks digging into the code/ebuilds...

     

    THX :)

  5. Indeed. Perhaps there would not be so many if these mix-ins were enabled just after the first reboot following a fresh Funtoo install.

    ...

    Reading the contents of the parent file within /usr/portage/profile/funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/mix-ins/media/ suggests to me that the "plain" media mix-in is the same as enabling the 2 mediadevice-foo-consumer mix-ins and the 3 mediaformat-foo-common mix-ins. Perhaps in the near future the original "plain" media mix-in should be depreciated in favour of the new media mix-ins.

    This speaks to the idea of planning upgrades rather than just surprising people with the aftermath.

    Yes, please.

  6. Oleg,

    I very much appreciate your answer, but I'm confused as I think my question is not being addressed.

     

    To install icedtea -> emerge icedtea-bin then emerge icedtea. Got it.

     

    However, virtual/jdk will, by default, install oracle-jdk-bin. And from you suggestions above - this can't be changed as it is the default. So virtual/jdk is tied to the oracle-jdk-bin.

     

    So choices for java are...

    1) install virtaul/jdk to get the default oracle-jdk

    2) manually install icedtea-bin then icedtea.

     

    I hope you can see the confusion I'm having here about the purpose of the virtual ebuild if choices are limited.

  7. A little confused. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how virtual ebuilds work.

     

    The web page suggest to emerge virtual/jdk which will pulling in oracle's jdk.

    So with a virtual ebuild, if a user wants to install icedtea, they would have to expressly install their jdk of choice afterwards?

    A user would have two jdk's installed?

     

    Yes?/No?

  8. If the hardware is same/similar you might be okay.

    Rather than sending a HD, maybe use a USB/DVD drive? It may be safer and a means of support to image the harddrive, send the image (DVD etc) with a copy of the System Rescue CD and instructions to put the image on the drive. Just thinking out loud - HD could get damaged in shipping

     

    After install, you could also to restore the data on to the the newly imaged drive(Extract a tar.gz or tar.bz2).

     

    Just a suggestion.

  9. A choice more than anything else.

    I haven't had problems using icedtea before.

     

    Also, it would seem incomplete to say in the wiki page "you can have these options" but not say how to enable those options.

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